Jonathan Cahn: The Harbinger

By The 700 Club

http://www.cbn.com/700club/guests/bios/jonathan_Cahn_010312.aspx

LIGHT TO THE NATIONS
The massive scale of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center
made for startling images and a new frightening, sober reality for
America. But through this devastation Rabbi Cahn was given
an understanding of what this meant to America through Isaiah
9:10, and the uncanny parallel this attack has to events in 8th
century Israel.

Jonathan says before God judges a nation, He sends warning.
He sent warning to ancient Israel. The attacks of 9/11 were
a warning, and like ancient Israel, if the nation ignores God’s
warning there will be dire consequences, Jonathan says.
Harbinger means “warning.” In his book, The Harbinger,
a prophetic mystery and message conveyed in the form of a novel,
Jonathan tells of the supernatural connection between ancient
Israel and America. An unnamed Prophet speaks. However, the
events are real, filled with insights the Lord revealed to
Jonathan in the years after 9/11.

There are nine harbingers of what happens after the first attack
if the nation refuses to return to God. The judgments are
progressive, with periods of normalcy in-between, but continue if
there is no national repentance. The economic implosion and
other national ills spring from this event. Israel and
America are the only two nations that God sovereignly planted as a
light to the nations. “Those who laid America’s foundations
saw it as a new Israel, an Israel of the New World. And as
with ancient Israel, they saw it as a covenant with God,” the
Prophet says. To whom much is given, much is required.

THE HARBINGERS
Based on Isaiah 9:10, - “The bricks have fallen, but
we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down,
but we will plant cedars in their place,” the
northern 10 Tribes of Israel refused to repent after they were
struck by the Assyrians - which was a warning from the Lord.
Instead of listening to the alarm, of turning back,
and humbling themselves in repentance, they boasted of their
resolve, that they would rebuild stronger and better than
before. They ignored the warning and rejected the call to
return. They defied it. Sadly, their defiance led to
the nation’s total destruction years later. The ancient
prophecy forms the key to the nine harbingers of judgment, which
are given to a nation in danger of judgment – each of which have
reappeared on American soil – marking America as the nation in
danger of judgment.

The First Harbinger: The Breach. In 732
B.C., the hedge of protection was removed and Israel’s enemies
invade the land and wreak havoc. The calamity traumatizes
the nation but it takes place on a limited scale, as with
9/11. The warning is the removal of the hedge. On
September 11, 2001, America’s hedge of protection was removed –
the breach of America’s security, and was a sign that God has
lifted His protective hand.

The Second Harbinger: The Terrorist. It
was the dark shadow of Assyrian terror that loomed over the
kingdom of Israel. The danger against which the prophets had
warned. And when, years later, Israel’s final judgment came,
the Assyrians would again be the means through which it would
happen. So, too, the attack
on America is carried out by terrorists. The Assyrians were
a Semitic people, children of the Middle East. So too were
the terrorists of 9/11. The Third Harbinger: The Fallen Bricks. The
most visible signs of the attack on ancient Israel were that of
the fallen buildings and the ruin heaps of fallen bricks.
The third harbinger is the sign of the fallen bricks of the fallen
buildings. On Sept 11, 2001, Americans were confronted with
the same sign, fallen bricks of the fallen buildings of the
wreckage of Ground Zero. America was not turning back to
God. It was a short-lived spiritual revival that never
came.

The Fourth Harbinger: The Tower. Israel
defiantly began rebuilding on the devastated ground, vowing to
rebuild higher and stronger. So, too, in the wake of 9/11,
American leaders vowed to rebuild at Ground Zero higher and
stronger – the Tower begins to rise at Ground Zero. Those
involved act unwittingly.

The Fifth Harbinger: The Gazit Stone.
We will rebuild with quarried stone -
The Israelites carve out quarried stone from mountain rock and
bring it back to the ground of destruction where clay bricks once
stood. Three years after 9/11, a stone is quarried out of
the mountain rock of New York. This massive stone was
brought back to Ground Zero. In ancient Israel this stone became a
misplaced embodiment of the nation’s confidence in its own
power. So too the massive stone at Ground Zero became the
symbolic cornerstone of the rebuilding. Public ceremonies
accompanied the stone placement. Plans to rebuild Ground
Zero would be frustrated for years. Eventually they would
remove the stone from GZ altogether.

The Sixth Harbinger: The Sycamore. The
Sycamores have been cut down - The attack
on ancient Israel resulted in the striking down of the sycamore
tree, a biblical sign of national judgment. The fallen
sycamore is a sign of uprooting, a warning and, in ignoring the
warning, it becomes a prophecy of judgment. On 9/11, as the
North Tower fell it sent debris and wreckage which struck and
uprooted an object – a sycamore tree growing at Ground Zero.
The tree was made into a symbol and named The Sycamore of
Ground Zero. When it fell in ancient Israel it
prophesied the nation’s downfall and the end of its kingdom.
What happens to America depends on if the warning is heeded.

The Seventh Harbinger: The Erez Tree. Butwe will plant cedars in their place - In
their defiance of God, the Israelites replace the fallen sycamore
with a Cedar tree. The cedar, being stronger than the
sycamore becomes a symbol of the nation’s arrogant hope that it
will emerge from the crisis stronger than before. The English name
for this tree is “Cedar,” but the Hebrew word is “Erez.”
Erez stands not only for cedar but for a conifer tree of
the panacea family. In November of 2003, a tree was lowered
at the corner of Ground Zero into the soil where the fallen
sycamore once stood. The tree was a conifer, a panacea tree,
the biblical Erez. A ceremony was held around the tree and
it, too, became a symbol – entitled The Tree of Hope.
There is always hope. A nation’s true hope is found only in
returning to God.

The Eight Harbinger: The Utterance.
The Eighth Harbinger was the public speaking of the ancient vow of
defiance. For this harbinger to manifest, the vow would have
to be spoken in the nation’s capital by a national leader, as it
had been in ancient Israel. On Sept 11, 2004, every object
mentioned in the prophecy of Isa 9:10 had manifested. The
public utterance of the prophecy had to take place publicly, which
happened on Sept 11, 2004 when VP candidate John Edwards, giving a
speech in the capital city, quoted this exact scripture word for
word in Wash., DC. Without realizing it, he was joining the
two nations together and, without realizing it, pronouncing
judgment on America. The ancient and the modern were bound
together.

The Ninth Harbinger: The Prophecy. The
Ninth Harbinger is the proclaiming of the ancient vow as prophecy,
as a matter of public record, and spoken before the words come
true. On Sept 12, 2001, the day after
9/11, America issues its official response to the
attack. The one in charge of issuing the response was
Tom Daschle, Senate Majority Leader. As he closes his speech
he makes a declaration – he proclaims the ancient vow of defiance,
word for word, to the world. By doing so he prophesies the
nation’s future course, all of which comes to pass.

The Second Shaking – The mystery of the
Harbinger continues – and lies behind everything from the Global
War on Terror, the Collapse of the American economy, the crash of
Wall Street, the Great Recession, and more.

Amazingly, events happened with an unseen hand, and people acted
unwittingly in the unfolding of this prophecy. The Prophet
character says that “The Almighty has His own purposes.”
God, in His mercy, always reaches out in mercy. At Ground
Zero, the ground of devastation becomes the ground of
restoration. Incredibly it was at the site of Ground Zero in
the miracle church, St Paul’s Chapel, that this nation was
dedicated to God by first president George Washington & other
leaders at his inauguration in 1789. The nation’s first
government was formed in New York City before DC was formed.
God is calling the nation back to Himself. “The heart of God
wills for salvation,” the Prophet says. “Greater than his
judgments are His compassions.”

THE STORY BEHIND THE MESSAGE
Not long after 9/11 Jonathan sensed that somehow these events were
linked to what happened to ancient Israel per Isa 9, the first
massive divine warning given to that nation. A number of
years later, he was standing at the corner of Ground Zero and his
attention was drawn to an object that was the first puzzle piece
of an ancient mystery and a prophetic warning for America.
He first shared the word at his congregation Beth Israel in
2005. A few years later he was led to begin committing the
message to book form. When the Lord started revealing these
things Jonathan had an urgent sense that this word needed to get
out.

COMING TO MESSIAH
Jonathan was raised in the synagogue but at age 8 questioned what
he was taught. Didn’t believe, and at age 11 he decided not
to pursue a bar mitzvah. By age 13 he questioned his
atheism. In 7th grade he became friends with a boy who spoke
to him of Jesus – began searching for answers. Reading The
Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey led him to open the
Bible and begin reading about end-time prophecies.
There he discovered the prophecies of the Jewish Messiah in the
Hebrew Scriptures. It all pointed to Jesus, but Jonathan
continued living as before, leading a rock band. He began
telling everyone about the prophecies and ended up winning others
to the Lord, though he himself wasn’t saved. He eventually
realized that it wasn’t enough to just agree with it in his
mind. If Messiah came back, he would not be ready to meet
Him. He knew there was only one way to God but he didn’t
want to give his life to God. But feeling the continual call
of God, he made a deal with Him. If God would grant him long
life, then he would accept the Lord… at the end – when he was
about to die.

Soon after that he was almost killed. Twice. He was
driving about 45 miles per hour in two lanes of traffic when the
car went out of control, swerving into two oncoming lanes,
spinning in and out of cars. By a miracle he wasn’t
killed. A few months later, at night, he was driving across
a train track and got stuck on it, even though he was trying to be
careful. He saw a big light – and it was the train which
plowed into his little Ford Pinto. As the car crumbled
before him, he could only call out to God. The car was
demolished and the crash made headlines, but Jonathan escaped
without a scratch. Strike two. Jonathan quickly
changed his deal with God and accepted the Lord when he turned
20. Not knowing much about salvation or how to come to God,
he drove up to the top of a mountain, kneeled down to pray and
dedicate his life to God. Not long after he was asked to
lead a Bible study. After college the Lord interrupted his
plans and called him into full-time ministry. He wanted to
do what Messiah would do, working with the needy, homeless and
disabled. He and others helped found a Messianic
outreach. A few years later in 1988, he was asked to lead
Beth Israel, the largest Messianic congregation in America made up
of Jew and Gentile alike.